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Crossing Styx
November 9, 2023What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...
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History of Madness by Michel Foucault
November 1, 2023By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and...
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Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
October 26, 2023"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...
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Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
October 22, 2023Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
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Faking It by William Ian Miller
October 21, 2023At turns erudite and droll, it reads like the collaborative effort of Harold Bloom and Dave...
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Halloween Home Video #4: Alexandre Courtès’ Asylum Blackout
July 20, 2023Welcome to Halloween Home Video (2012 edition), a special series of home video reviews for this...
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AMERICA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: TREATING THE MENTALLY ILL AS CRIMINALS
May 27, 2023AMERICA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: TREATING THE MENTALLY ILL AS CRIMINALS Most recently, Pete Earley wrote for...
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Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
April 16, 2023Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient...
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Devil In The Details – by Jennifer Traig
April 15, 2023All parents of adolescents despair of them, particularly those with teenage daughters. Endless hours on the...
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Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
April 15, 2023According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The...